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Evidence-based Dentistry
Why Bother?
Asbjorn JokstadInstitute of Clinical Dentistry, University of Oslo, Norway
FDI World Dental Federation, Ferney-Voltaire, France
Teachers“Curriculum”
Advertising- producers- colleagues
Publicationsin
dentistry
The graduate
• Already from day 1 the science in dentistry advances further - how to stay updated?
• Theoretic knowledge at zenith, from now on less time for reading / question of priorities
• No hands-on experience with many procedures common in modern dental clinics
- from where and how can further training be obtained?
The graduate• Has been taught and can perform many
basic procedures - not necessarily the most modern
A rapidly changing society
The production of new knowledge in biomedicine is at maximum in historical context• Tremendous growth in
publications• Related to numbers of
physicians and scientists• Infomercial publications
Dental journals in circulation
0100200300400500600700800900
1000
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2003
N=993
700 active200 ceased100 merged
Source: Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory
1. There is an Information Explosion in all fields of Biomedicine
“Vitenskap”
Dental‘science’700 journals 25000 articles/y
Meetings/ courses
Colleagues
Dental literature
WWW
?!
Patients & (-groups)
Popular magazines & Media
Dentists’ daily situation: An information overload
Advertising- producers- colleagues
2. We need to consider not only theamount
of information, but also thequality
of this information
There is an Information Explosion in all fields of Biomedicine
Where and by who is new knowledge in oral sciences generated?
The researchers
•Creates “scientific evidence”•Formulation of ideas, hypotheses, study design, data collection•Peer review, internal/external validity, debates within paradigms•Report findings in probabilities, not absolutes
The clinical practitioners
•Single handed GPs/ specialists in teams; secondary/tertiary care•Great diversity of experience, interest and capacity •Draw on a panoply of experience•Pragmatism: what works - what creates problems
Developers of local guidelines and protocols
•Local consensus, sometimes on national guidelines •Clinical specialists seeking ways to influence peers
The appraisers of evidence for clinical practice
•Epidemiologists, health economists, statisticians, social scientists, and clinicians •Collect, abstract and appraise practice related knowledge•Debates about value and balance between consensus and evidence, rigour of data and application of statistics
A rapidly changing society
• The production of new knowledge is at maximum in historical context
• Incessant replacements of established ideas and concepts
A rapidly changing society1.The production of new knowledge is
at maximum in historical context2. The quality of information varies3. Incessant replacements of
established ideas and concepts4. Information technology has
improved the potential for information transfer to everybody
New patients?
Patient access to Information
Wish to remain sound, look healthy, different?…. young!!!Competitive health providers and information sourcesPatient information and communication
5. General practitioners need information on
professional issues to meet the expectationsof educated patients in
this information age
What would you answer be if ...
a 32 y patient calls four hoursafter a wisdom tooth has been removed and complainsabout bleeding, pain and severe swelling. She demands immediately some
analgetics, some antifebrilesand perhaps also antibiotics?...
..or if ...a 66 year old woman comes to your clinic because she feels she hasn’t received any help from her former dentist about oral lichen planus. She wants to confer with you about a new Vietnamese Herbal Tea treatment described in the latest issue of ‘Health & Fitness’
Approaches when we’re uncertain • A patho-physiological appr.: this makes sense…• An expert / “how I was trained” approach: I learned this
worked / didn't work...• An anecdotal appr.: this didn't work last time..• A consultant approach: maybe I can ask a few
colleagues I work with….• A textbook approach: often outdated and no strong
support.• Confess that you don’t know - or - do something and
pray...• or invent some combination of approaches
Influences on treatment decisions
Resources
Dental PracticeExperience
Evidence
LitigationThe last patient
Education
Audit
Payment systems
Where can I find relevant clinical information when I need it fast?
• Can I consult a colleague?• Are my journals and textbooks
organised and updated? • Is a relevant library nearby?• Can I find the answers on the
Internet?
Altavista - webmedisin
20 links
Altavista - webmedisin
3675 links
Google - webmedisin
11900 links!
Medline - webmedisin
972 articles
Dentists’ environment: Overload of information!
Meetings/ courses
Colleagues
Advertising- producers- colleagues
“Vitenskap”
WWW
Patients & (-groups)
Popular magazines & Media
Dental‘science’700 journals: 25000 articles/y
Dental literature
6. A paradox
In spite of an information overload
…. only a small fraction is truly
appropriate for direct application
…. and we are ill equipped to digest
and synthesize this information
busy practice +reimbursement pressure
1.Information explosion2.Quality of information3.No theories are constant 4.Educated patients with
access to information5.Daily information needs6.Paradox
The situation for many dentists today
3. and traditional instructional continuing education courses do not improve our performance.
2. consequently, our clinical knowledge and performance in the clinic deteriorates
1. We need new information every day, but most of our needs are never met
Maybe this new thing EBM can be of any help?
Evidence Based Dentistry is the
1. Practice of a process of life-long….
2. problem-based learning in which devoted care for our patients creates a…
3. need for evidence about the…
4. cutting edge knowledge … concerning diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and other clinical and health care issues.
(Adopted from Sackett et al.,1995)
Evidence Based Dentistry?!
An increasingly fashionable tendency of a group of young, confident, and highly numerate medical academics to defame the performance of experienced clinicians by using a combination of epidemiological jargon and statistical manipulation.
Evidence-based Practice:
Arguments, usually presented with near evangelistic zeal, that no health related action should ever be taken by a doctor, a nurse, a purchaser of health services, or a politician unless and until the results of several large and expensive Randomized Controlled Trials have appeared in print and approved by a committee of experts
Evidence Based Dentistry?!
Evidence-based Practice:
• A strategy for being reasonably certain that my advises and treatment are the best available to my patients. - an ethical aspect
• A strategy for solving clinical problems on a daily basis.- a practical aspect
Two incentives for practicing Evidence-based Dentistry
Ethical reasons?COCHRANE LOGO: Corticostereoids and premature birth:
Lau et al. Streptokinase and myocardial infarction.N Eng J Med, 1992.
Cumulative Year RCTs PTs
1 231960
2 651965 3 149
4 3161970
7 179310 254411 2651
1975 15 331117 392922 545223 5767
198027 612530 6346
1985 33 657143 2105954 2205165 4718567 47531
1990 70 48154
P < .01
P < .001
P < .00001
Favours treatment Favours control Textbook / review recommendations
R S E NM215
1 101 22 8
78
1 121 8 41 7 3
5 2 2 115 8 16 1
0.5 1.0 2.0
Evidence Based Dentistry?!
The aim of evidence-based medicine is to eliminate the use of ineffective, expensive, or even dangerous medical decision-making
(Rosenberg & Donald, BMJ, 1995)
Evidence Based Dentistry
A strategy for how to cope with changes - not about knowing all the answers.
Not so much what you have read in the past…. but about…
how you should go about to identify and meet your ongoing learning needs… and applying the new knowledge appropriately and consistently in new clinical settings.
How can evidence-based dentistry be integrated in our daily practice?
Practice of Evidence-based DentistryIdentify Problem –generate question
Act on Evidence
Search for Evidence
Make Sense of Evidence
EBD practice1. Generate focused clinical questions
– On therapy, diagnostic tests, prognosis, harm, etc. (= PBL)
2. Efficiently find the evidence (=PBL)3. Determine validity, results,
applicability of evidence4. Apply the results of appraisal in
clinical practice / teaching5. Evaluate own performance
How can we apply EBD in our daily practice?
1. By learning how to practice evidence- based dentistry ourselves–Books –Seminars–Internet
• Courses• Articles• Link banks
Modified from Haynes et al. BMJ 1998;317:273-6
How can we apply EBD in our daily practice?
2. By seeking and applying evidence-based dentistry summaries generated by others
• Journals that critically appraise primary studies
• Systematic reviews
Modified from Haynes et al. BMJ 1998;317:273-6
Online secondary publication - EBD:
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100
150
200
250
1981
-19
85
1986
-19
90
1991
-19
95
1996
-20
00
2001
-20
02
(Cumulative)
N=236
Systematic reviews in dentistry
Cochrane Oral Health Group
• 250 members from 25 countries• Specialist trials register ~14,000
entries• Systematic reviews: near 90
http://www.cochrane-oral.man.ac.uk
The Cochrane Collaboration
2. By seeking and applying evidence-based dentistry summaries generated by others
• Secondary Journals • Systematic reviews• IADR: International Collaboration for
Evidence-based Dentistry
How can we apply EBD in our daily practice?
How can we apply EBD in our daily practice?
3. By accepting and applying practice protocols, policies and guidelines based on evidence-based principles
Modified from Haynes et al. BMJ 1998;317:273-6
Replaces original findings with subjectively selected, arbitrarily summarised, laundered and biased conclusions of indeterminate validity or completeness.
It has been carried out by people of unknown ability, experience, and skills using methods whose opacity prevents assessment of the original data.
Evidence Based Dentistry?!
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Thank you for yourkind attention
